Moshe Safdie was surprised. For the first time since he started working on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, 11 years ago, one of the three large ponds he designed for the center of the property was full. Though not by choice.
For hours, torrential rain had pounded the site, a valley in which the museum surrounds (and sometimes spans) acres of Safdie-designed ponds. Except for the fact that the water was thick with mud, the effect, after the sun appeared, was picturesque. Safdie himself shot photos on his iPhone, not just of the scene outside the museum but also of the light reflecting off the pond onto the gallery ceilings. It was something he had waited more than a decade to see, he said, and it had produced some of the magic he had hoped for.
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